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Who the hell is Jon Skeet?
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thenduksApr 21 '09 at 20:37

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@thenduks: Leave now before he comes and sees your ignorance.
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DexterApr 22 '09 at 23:28

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Could someone explain to those poor lost souls how much they are mistaken? They refer to "Chuck Norris" for "programming" facts, instead of Jon! See "The Ultimate Top 25 Chuck Norris “The Programmer” Jokes": codesqueeze.com/… (and the last comments on that page)
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VonCJun 20 '09 at 10:08

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@VonC: I saw your comment in that forum. Thanks for trying to set those heathens straight. :)
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Bill the LizardJun 26 '09 at 2:44

Well played, sir. I'm glad you joined in the fun, instead of being embarrassed or offended by this question. It says a lot that you took it in the same spirit it was intended. :)
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Bill the LizardNov 21 '08 at 23:18

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Jon Skeet does not refer to himself in the third person. Jon Skeet is always the first person, regardless of who is speaking about him.
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Dan DyerNov 22 '08 at 0:22

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>> Jon Skeet is immutable. If something's going to >> change, it's going to have to be the rest of the universe. You weren't reading my book carefuly ;-) we'll just create new clone with some properties changed.
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Tomas PetricekNov 22 '08 at 1:42

@Jon: wouldn't you prefer your first gold badge to be for your canonical post on for loops instead of a bunch of Chuck Norris jokes? :) It's OK - Al Pacino didn't really get his Oscar for Scent of a Woman, either.
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MusiGenesisNov 26 '08 at 18:26

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I'll happily take any gold badge I get ;)
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Jon SkeetNov 26 '08 at 18:27

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Sharing knowledge and helping others is one of the major reasons for personal satisfaction, and what really pushes this satisfaction to the edge, is people's appreciation and thankfulness. Jon you earned that, you really deserve to be happy about yourself. :)
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GalilyouMar 11 '09 at 10:12

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Jon Skitt...u r the man!
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PushkarMar 23 '09 at 18:28

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I have read this post more than all the novels I have read combined!
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DragonBornSep 16 '09 at 8:42

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Even though JonSkeet is immutable and therefore is a value, isn't there SOME way I can reference him? Surely he isn't static or sealed or volatile or....or....unmanaged!
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jroOct 1 '09 at 16:33

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As of today Jon Skeet is officially immutable. He's the first to receive the bronze immutable badge.
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Ates GoralMar 25 '11 at 6:17

@Rocket - I've heard that the language design team was spot-on except for minor contextual keyword choice differences in the async feature. They are not going to reveal the correct keywords, for fear it would create dissatisfaction among C# programmers with the language as it is actually being implemented. Thus we will never know what awesomeness C#5 could have been.
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Jeffrey L WhitledgeDec 15 '11 at 23:20

I recognize Greg Hewgill in the last panel, and I'm probably the only one who spotted my own logo. :) So, who is that speaking in the last panel, and who is the PHB supposed to be? (This is hilarious, BTW.)
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Bill the LizardNov 29 '08 at 3:05

Jon Skeet has a guru badge for a question about... Jon Skeet (Marc Gravell)
(this is true: his answer on this post has been accepted and upvoted more than 40 times)
That makes Jon Skeet the leading authority on... Jon Skeet (Bill the Lizard).

There simply is no Halting Problem within a 10-meter radius of Jon Skeet, because computers are rightfully afraid to halt in his presence.

Jon Skeet has proven the Continuum Hypothesis, but has agreed not to share his discovery with the world until leading mathematicians recover from the shock.

Jon Skeet is beyond Turing-complete; he is Turing-invincible.

nVidia plans to triple the processing power of their newest videocards by bypassing their GPU pipelines entirely and offloading the vector operations to Jon Skeet over instant messenger. And those graphics benchmarks will improve further still during those intervals when Jon is actually awake.

Skeet is now a verb. To be skeeted: The act of attempting to answer a Stack Overflow question only to find out that Jon Skeet has already answered it definitively and much better than you could have done.